Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to sending military units , the USA also imposed a complete trade embargo on Iraq which included the prohibition of exports to any entity operated from Iraq or owned or controlled by the government of Iraq . |
| 2 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
| 3 | The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income . |
| 4 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 5 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 6 | The C[atholic] C[urate] was sent out to patrol the roads and anybody found or seen on the roads had to give their names . |
| 7 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 8 | Sir John Menzies was part of that , by his marriage to Atholl 's daughter , and Atholl dined and intrigued with the Lord Advocate when he went to Edinburgh for the season . |
| 9 | In the case of this well-liked fatherly brigadier , it was common knowledge that , although he would accept his chauffeuse 's six shillings , he would then pay all other expenses in order that she would be wined , dined and accommodated in the same style as himself . |
| 10 | Our data is collected , validated and checked by a 120 strong team — using multiple sources to ensure reliability . |
| 11 | A rare chance to see our experiences as women validated and endorsed on the big screen in a powerful and yes , entertaining movie about a subject that matters profoundly to us . |
| 12 | It was postmarked Manchester , the paper was poor , and the writing scrawled and dipped across the stained envelope . |
| 13 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 14 | He opened his eyes , his consciousness hazed and slowed by the kif he had smoked , and focused with difficulty on the watch on the bedside table . |
| 15 | One of them , Prof John Sargent , was among a band of eminent researchers in Britain , the United States , Canada , Italy and France who were bullied , cajoled and encouraged by the Odones to help in producing treatment that would save their son 's life . |
| 16 | Glass cracked and splintered in the passage through to the kitchens . |
| 17 | I stood staring at the jeep as it bumped and swayed over the uneven ground of the orchard until it reached the road and then disappeared in a cloud of dust . |
| 18 | That a deep-seated and all-embracing blood taboo unquestionably lay at the heart of so much of Jewish belief and ritual practice is clearly evidenced by the later ( Christian ) book of Hebrews which saw fit to characterize Judaism specifically as a covenant of blood , sanctified , purified and redeemed by the blood of cultic sacrifice : |
| 19 | Today , the active ingredients of leaves , roots , gums , seeds , etc from many countries are extracted , purified and supplied to the pharmaceutical industry throughout the world by a factory not a million miles from Murrayfield rugby ground in Edinburgh . |
| 20 | Why should the same multitude who invoked blessings on the son of David rejoice in seeing him mortified and humiliated by the hated Roman oppressors ? |
| 21 | It was almost totally dark when they arrived in the stable yard and Catherine jumped involuntarily as something moved and rattled against the boards . |
| 22 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 23 | Both sides now were in need of respite ; peace endured until 1369 when the French , refreshed and led by a new and able young monarch , Charles V , confronted the English whose king was on the verge of senility and whose government was divided . |
| 24 | They all seemed brighter ; refreshed and strengthened by the morning 's events . |
| 25 | Most of the urgent safety spending is required on the southern half of the line , which was relaid , resignalled and electrified in the 1960s . |
| 26 | This cooled and condensed into the solar planets , which were later themselves subject to more distortion by the Sun . |
| 27 | Fitzormonde stopped and gulped from the cup . |
| 28 | Lyddy knelt and put on the shoes she had kicked aside and then brought a hairbrush . |
| 29 | In a curious visionary text of the seventh century , Barontus , a monk of St Cyran , is told by St Peter not to hide his possessions , but instead to give away twelve solidi , each one weighed and signed by a priest , for the good of his soul . |
| 30 | Outside the Barbican , the National Gallery is mounting ‘ Edvard Munch : the Frieze of Life ’ ( 12 November to 7 February ) which focuses on the cycle of paintings of that name which the artist codified and modified over the years . |